Gate-hinge



(No Model.)

J. J. WRIGHT. GATE HINGE.

No. 445,387. Patented Jan. 27,1891.

NITED STATES JOHN J. WRIGHT, OF BREMEN, INDIANA.

GATE-HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,387, dated January 27, 1891.

Application filed July 23, 1890. Serial No- 359,651. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bremen, in the county of Marshall and. State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate-Hinges; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has relation to improvements in gate-hinges; and it consists in the construction, novel combination, and adaptation of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved hinge, the sections thereof being shown in the respective positions they occupy when the gate is partly open. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same when the gate is closed, and Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views of the sections separated.

In carrying out my invention the sections of my improved hinge, which are of a proper proportional size, may be cast or otherwise formed of any suitable material, and the construction of the several elements may be varied to render their operation more perfect without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Referring to said drawings by letters of reference, A indicates the postbracket, the shelf plate of which is provided on its inner edge with a vertical integral flange-plate at, having screw-holes for the attachment of the section to the gate post, and the said shelfplate is also provided in its front or outer edge adjacent to the sides thereof, with approximately U-shaped slots or recesses b, which are designed to receive the depending pivot-pins of the gate section or casting. Rising from the upper side of the shelf of the post-section A, adjacent to the inner side of the U-shaped slots, are pivot-pins or pintles c, which guide the movement of the gate-section and prevent a casual separation thereof from the post-section, as will be presently explained. The gate section or casting B also has a shelf-plate B, and a vertical flangeplate 0, having screw-holes, rising from the inner edge of said shelf for the attachment of the section to the gate-frame. The shelf B',which has its front portion provided with a substantially rectangular recess, is provided 011 each side of said recess with inwardly and laterally disposed curved slots or loops d, which in operation move about and are guided by the pintle-posts of the post-section.

Preferably formed integral with and depending from the shelf B, at points adjacent to the inner side of the laterally and inwardly curved slots (Z, are pintles or pivotposts D, which in operation alternately take into the U-shaped slots of the post-section and are seated therein.

As better illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the corners of the outer edge of the shelfplate B are preferably round ed, so as to allow them to pass by the attaching flange in their pivotal movement.

0 indicates arched strips, which are preferably formed integral with the casting B, and which bridge the opening between the outer wall at the outer end of the loops d and the main shelf, and through the medium of these arches C and the pintles c the objectionable casual separation of the sections is obviated, as will presently appear.

By the construction described it will be seen, when it is understood that my improvements are designed mainly for use as lower hinges, that the great objection in this class of hinges-viz., the casual separation of the sections by a sudden wrench of the gate-is obviated as follows: hen the sections have been fixed to the gate-post and gate, the pintles D are seated in the slots b, while the shelf carrying therecesses cl and arches O rests upon the shelf of post-section. Now, when the gate is swung open in either direction, one of the pintles or pivots D will leave its recess or seat and swing with the gate, while the other will remain seated in its seat and perform the functions of a pivot-post, and it willbe observed that as the gate-section is swung around the curved recess d, in which the pintle 0 moves, will also be swung around and in conj unctiou with the arches C will prevent the obj ectionahlecasualseparation of thesections.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- The improved gate hinge herein described, consisting, essentially, of the section A, composed of the vertical flange a, the shelf-plate extending from the middle thereof and having' its outer edge provided with the recesses l adapted to take into the recesses 12 of the op- Z) Z), and the vertical pintles 0, arranged upon posite section, substantially as specified.

the upper side of the shelf and between said In testimony whereof I affix my signature in recesses, and the section B, having the verpresence of two Witnesses. tical flange e, the shelf-plate B, having the JOHN J \VRIGHT. curved loops or stops d d, the strips C, arch- WVitnesses: 7 ing said recesses, and the pintles D, depend- BRADFORD D. PLACE,

ing from the under side of the shelf and LEVI C. PARKER. 

